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  • He drew a deep draft of the salt-sea air and pounded his chest.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Many were his adventures and severe his toils and hardships ere, as a salt-sea junk-sailor, he won to

    THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

  • He drew a deep draft of the salt-sea air and pounded his chest.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • He drew a deep draft of the salt-sea air and pounded his chest.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • He drew a deep draft of the salt-sea air and pounded his chest.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • The chemist had no boxes of ginger-beer powders, no beautifying sea-side soaps and washes, no attractive scents; nothing but his great goggle-eyed red bottles, looking as if the winds of winter and the drift of the salt-sea had inflamed them.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • That Himmalehan, salt-sea, Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • In good time, though, to his great delight, the three salt-sea warriors would rise and depart; to his credulous, fable-mongering ears, all their martial bones jingling in them at every step, like Moorish scimetars in scabbards.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • I plodded along, letting the wind pull my hair across my face, taking deep breaths of salt-sea air.

    Goodnight, Irene Burke, Jan 1993

  • English ale at a right salt-sea tavern, a bay horse, and two-wheeled

    Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

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